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Bhavani Daryanani

Bhavani Daryanani serves as NFF’s Chief Financial Officer, leading the Finance function and overseeing strategic financial planning, policies, accounting, and reporting. With more than 20 years of experience in finance, she leverages financial strategies and innovation to advance economic and social change. Her passion for impact investing and commitment to addressing inequities in housing, education, &hellip

Kareem Thomas

Kareem Thomas is Chief Credit Officer for Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), where he leads organizational credit risk, asset management, and loan administration – supporting mission-driven investments that strengthen communities nationwide. In this role, Kareem leverages his deep expertise in credit, community lending, and asset management to drive equitable access to capital for nonprofits and communities &hellip

Kristin Giantris

Kristin leads NFF’s national Client Services practice, which delivers a wide variety of financing and consulting services to NFF’s community-centered clients, funders, and investors across the US. She leads a team of 50 that bring grounded perspectives along with innovative capital and capacity to organizational, sector, and systems-levels challenges. Kristin oversees a financing portfolio of &hellip

Aisha Benson

Aisha Benson (she/her) is President and CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), a nonprofit lender, consultant, and advocate that boosts the collective success and power of nonprofits to advance community wealth and well-being. As a leading community development financial institution (CDFI) founded in 1980, NFF has provided over $1.7 billion in financing and access to &hellip

Jana L Reed

Jana L Reed serves as the Chief Operating Officer, leading the Operations, People, and Culture suite that support our lending and consulting business. Previously, Jana was the COO at iMentor, a national nonprofit focused on helping first-generation college students succeed through strong mentoring relationships. She brings a wealth of experience across the public, private, and &hellip